http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/reddit-donald-trump-steve-huffman spez-pizzagate-trolls-hillary-clinton-a7436406.html
'The boss of Reddit deleted comments from a Donald Trump-supporting community on his site, he has admitted.''The_Donald' community was one of the most popular Trump supporting communities. He deleted comments that he didn't agree with him and altered names of offensive comments to make them seem that they were aimed at the reddit moderators. He said that he wanted to 'troll the trolls'. 'Mr Huffman's reference to Pizzagate is part of a false news story that claimed that Hillary Clinton and campaign chairman John Podesta committed acts of child abuse in a pizza restaurant in Washington, DC. The story was entirely fake but was promoted by many people across the internet, including those on Reddit.'
O there have been 234 million unique reddit users.
O 11 464 active reddit communities.
O 217 countries with reddit users
O 8 billion monthly page views
O an average of 25 million daily votes.
I think that this is a good example of the influence of the internet on politics. false stories were spread and believed, and this would have definitely changed people views on candidates. It also shows that even though the internet is better at showing both candidates truly whilst newspapers continually showed their favourites. The people/editors behind companies can change content to suit their own beliefs so it raises the question as to whether newspapers and certain internet sites are actually that different. Or is the internet just easier at disguising it.
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